{"id":1636,"date":"2020-12-23T09:37:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2023-12-09T23:47:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T07:47:04","slug":"how-is-firefox-so-far-on-a-mac-with-apple-silicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=1636","title":{"rendered":"How is Firefox so far on a Mac with Apple Silicon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I bought a new Mac Mini with Apple&#8217;s new M1 chip. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freshcardsapp.com\">I have an app in the Mac App Store<\/a>, so I needed to make sure it ran okay with the new silicon and with the new macOS Big Sur.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox had a bunch of issues loading pages, like protonmail.com, but eventually they released version 84, built for Apple Silicon.<\/p>\n<p>So how is it so far?<\/p>\n<p>Not bad. However, if I leave the browser for several hours, the next the time I use it, the UI will be frozen. It won&#8217;t have a spinning beach ball of death, but it will be unresponsive. Restarting it seems to fix it.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that major issue, I&#8217;m finding it&#8217;s working well for browsing the web. It&#8217;s snappy and doesn&#8217;t crash. If you are planning to get an M1 Mac, you should have a generally good experience with Firefox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I bought a new Mac Mini with Apple&#8217;s new M1 chip. I have an app in the Mac App Store, so I needed to make sure it ran okay with the new silicon and with the new macOS Big Sur. Firefox had a bunch of issues loading pages, like protonmail.com, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=1636\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How is Firefox so far on a Mac with Apple Silicon?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1759,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}